Pregnancy-associated breast cancer

case report

Abstract

Pregnancy-associated breast cancer is becoming a reality since women delay childbearing. Approximately 3% of breast cancers are diagnosed in pregnant woman between 23 to 47 years (mean age 33 years). It is defined as any breast carcinoma diagnosed during pregnancy or during the first postpartum year. The pregnancy-associated breast cancer usually presents as an advanced stage, in part because of delay on diagnostic and treatment, than histological characteristics of the breast cancer. There is no consensus about the better treatment option that should being used. We report here three cases of pregnancy-associated breast cancer and discuss some clinical, histopathological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects, showing our experience and the more recent we found in literature.